art in the public realm, walk/tour, monument, scientific
Piers Nicholson, 2025
61 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1JU
The Fleet Street Heritage Wall comprises 86 A3 information panels about the people, places, ideas and newspapers which made the name o Fleet Street famous throughout the world. From 17th to 20th Sept frequent talks will be given on thesundial and the Heritage Wall, and its innovative design features which will mqke it accessible to all comers through web pages, Easy Read pages, and audio files
Blackfriars, Chancery Lane, Temple
City Thameslink
26, 76, 341
The Fleet Street Heritage Proect has produced 94information panels on the people, places, buildings and ideas which have shaped this iconic area. 86 of these panels are displayed at the Open House and all 94are shown on our www.fleetstreetheritage.co.uk website (see below)
The Fleet street Heritage Sundial is a large vertical sundial on the wall of 61 Fleet Street at the corner of Bouverie Street. This wall had been completely blank from the 1950s until October 2021, when the sundial was opened by the Lady Mayoress. It now has a 10m x 10m east-facing sundial on it, which shows the time until 11.30 and commemorates some of the national newspapers which used to be published in the neighbourhood when Fleet Street was the centre of the newspaper industry. “The Republican” was actually published on this site.
supported
The Corporation of London Neighbourhood Fund supported both projects .
Our event will be open from 10 to 4 from Thursday 17th to Sunday 20 th
September. Piers Nicholson, who designed the sundial, and other members of
our staff will give a 10 min. introduction to the Heritage Wall on each hour, and
to the Heritage Sundial on each half-hour, and will answer any questions
between these talks.
Copies of “The Heritage of Fleet Street” book will be available at £15 – Fleet
Street Heritage CIC makes £12 profit on each book sold and. all of this is used
to produce more Heritage pages in the future and to maintain the Heritage wall.
All pages of the Fleet Street Heritage Project are always available on the www.fleetstreetheritage.co.uk website; one of these pages is a Heritage Walk which will take you to all the main heritage locatons in the area.
The sundial is publicly accessible 24/7, so you can see it working on any sunny day between 7 and 11.30 am. Full details of the sundial and its history with videos of the construction, are available on the www.fleetstreetheritagesundial.uk website. Please also visit the Tylers and Bricklayers Millennium sundial on Pauls Walk, Blackfriars on the north side of the Thames (75 yards upstream from the Millennium Bridge).